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The US ban on state AI regulation may be voted on in the senate very soon. If you live in one of these states - FL, MO, TX, TN, WI, AK, ME - please call your senators & ask them to remove the "state AI regulation ban" in the budget reconciliation bill NOW! Link to call & what to say in next post 1/

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Can I please have more than 20 minutes of Murderbot this week? Also early drops of seasons 2-500 would be nice.

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this is a segregationist administration and it is wild to me that there is any resistance to this straightforward observation

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Ten years after marriage equality became the law of the land, the fight isn’t over. Republicans are pushing to roll it back. The right to marry the person you love should not depend on your state, your zip code, or the politics of the moment.

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Two weeks ago, my friend and Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were taken from us in an awful act of political violence. Today, the United States Senate unanimously supported a resolution honoring Melissa and Mark’s life and work.

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Everyone should read The Power of Myth.

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RIP Jim Parkinson, an iconic Oakland-based typeface designer who designed or refined the nameplate of every magazine and newspaper you know

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I forgot she existed, another blast from the past

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Due to a combination of factors, the economy under Donald Trump is heading in the wrong direction which should raise alarms.

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Excited about the new display of the medieval sundial from Ani, but statements saying that "while sundials were well-developed in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, their use in the medieval era was relatively limited" are untrue. We have hundreds of Byzantine & medieval references to using them. 🕰️

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🖋️ “Reject ICE & Trump Using the California National Guard Against Us” (Calif. only) hit 2,000 signers! 💬 Text SIGN PQIZPQ to 50409

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I hate this timeline so much

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RFK Jr. fired all of the experts at CDC's vaccine advisory committee. He installed 8 unvetted people, including anti-vaxxers who should have ZERO role in deciding which vaccines insurance should cover. The committee's next meeting must be postponed.

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HARRIET WALTER IS CHRISTOPHER LEE'S NIECE WHY HAS NO ONE TOLD ME THIS

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As a follow-up to _Calling Bullshit_, Jevin West and I developed the course about LLMs that we think every college freshman should take. Yesterday I talked about the course in a seminar at UNSW. And thanks to my colleagues there, 24 hours later the video is already online.

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MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

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Vaccines don't Cause Autism. Countless people have gotten seriously ill, permanently disabled, and died due to this hoax that RFK Jr. is perpetuating. Link to sources: www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/fact-checkin...

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This is a constant thing in progressive leaning people. “Well, workers shouldn’t BE tipped; they should make a living wage!” “People shouldn’t be driving in cities.” “Nobody should be shopping at or selling on Amazon.” We don’t live in that world yet. Take steps to get there. Do what YOU can.

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A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. Department of Labor from shutting down Job Corps, a residential program for low-income youth, until a lawsuit against the move is resolved.

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NEWS: In Newsom v. Trump, Judge Breyer finds that he has jurisdiction to consider a preliminary injunction based on Posse Comitatus Act grounds — and grants California’s request for discovery on that issue.

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Two huge movie studios are suing Midjourney, claiming the firm’s AI has been trained on their copyrighted material – the entrance of the Hollywood giants into this legal fight could be a watershed moment for AI and copyright

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“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

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Autistic humans are often spoken about as being detail-oriented, justice-driven, truth-seeking. But no one talks about the trap that comes with that. We start to believe that our value lies in always noticing what’s wrong. ....

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AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!

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Fucking finally it is there in plain writing. It often felt like this basic fact was overlooked in the debate. Before we even talk about what is "transformative" or not, or whether AI slop could compete with human works, the fact is that it's infringement to collect all these works for training.

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i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

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Thomas Chatterton Williams announcing he's boycotting Mamdani's hypothetical public supermarkets, like he's ever set foot in a Key Food in his life.

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Students who are afraid to go outside due to encounters with immigration agents can use remote, free mental health services in California.

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Trump threatens to destroy Spain's economy because they won't bend the knee to his demands: "Oh, I think Spain is terrible, what they've done ... that economy could be blown right out of the water with something bad happening."

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Trump paused ICE raids, but only after immigrant workers, unions, and students fought back. @ddayen.bsky.social reports on the grassroots resistance behind the president’s immigration U-turn: https://trib.al/FKeN5dq

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I had a REALLY lovely time talking to @milesklee.bsky.social at Rolling Stone about why The Onion is thriving. It's because we're one of the only legacy outlets unafraid to accurately reflect the mood of this country. That mood? Everyone fucking hates this. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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I didn’t even know he was running and I have loathed him from afar for years (charter school baron)

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Donald Trump is getting rid of bans on junk fees that Democrats put in place. He’s letting giant corporations rip you off at every turn — serving his billionaire donors, not you. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

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MAGA has no future because Trump refuses to allow one: No successor. No ideology. Just applause for him alone. So surely that curtain will fall. The latest Letter from America from Guy Anthony Ayres

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"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents. www.startribune.com/what-should-...

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On the back of a recent wave of AI shilling for use in "education", here's my second, tangential essay in the "I call bullshit" series: On not screwing over learners in my writing classroom by pretending generative AI will do them more good than harm. suyidavies.com/essays/i-cal...

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🚨 1/ IN COURT: The sentencing for Patrick Macdonald, better known as the Dark Foreigner, and a propagandist for the terrorist group Atomwaffen, has begun. Follow along here for important updates. Read our coverage of Macdonald’s trial where he was found guilty here:

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Or maybe in two weeks. 🙄

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We already have a mechanism for this, called the teacher. No one is going to get misty-eyed that an AI dug into their personal life and faked an interest in it

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"NY is what happens to a society when it fails to control migration." It has a huge economy? It has a massive population? It becomes the center of culture and art and media? It becomes a place ppl strive to move to?

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Trump’s Gestapo is completely out of control, bound by no laws, openly racially profiling brown people and grabbing U.S. citizens and treating it like a video game. (Clearly getting paid per person)

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